From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JJmQP-0001g9-2h for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:06:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 32522E0071; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:06:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02E40E0071 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:06:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8734865B4B for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:06:34 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.847 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.847 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.662, BAYES_40=-0.185] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id eLRm+zS5AGkV for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:06:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB99665927 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:06:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JJmQ5-0005pn-J0 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:06:17 +0000 Received: from ip68-231-12-179.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.12.179]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:06:17 +0000 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-12-179.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:06:17 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: debianutils: system worthy ? Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:06:06 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <200801280723.19003.vapier@gentoo.org> <479E0EF7.2040108@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-12-179.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.132 (Waxed in Black) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 62b87812-8680-4751-9194-2a13f5e6f91a X-Archives-Hash: 23125482b2cde086ab30ceb4c51ddeb9 Vlastimil Babka posted 479E0EF7.2040108@gentoo.org, excerpted below, on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:20:55 +0100: > I'd relax, removing from system doesn't make the package automagically > uninstall for everybody who has it. And running emerge --depclean > without --pretend, especially on production systems, sounds stupid > anyway :) You are absolutely correct, those that use the tools Gentoo both gives=20 them and repeatedly stresses in the documentation, don't have that=20 problem. As I said, however, and Jakob can sure back me up on this as=20 I've seen him make the point =3D8^), it's what people /should/ do, but... --=20 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman --=20 gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list